Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-19
THROUGH THE STATE.
HAPPENINGS HERE AND THEREIN THEM
TERROR COUNTIES.
The News Of the Past Six Days as We Clean 1t
from the Columns Of the Weekly Press and
Adapt 1t 10 Register Readers.

The HARRISBURG IalT cunitiehccooh -
day, September 9th, and continues fou'
days.
David Yocum died at his home in Ran.
dolph county last Thursday week, aged
LOG years.
Chenille has contributed $500, the re
ouired amount for the construction OF 9
telephone from Weston to that point
Braxton has also joined hands.
A number of carrier pigeons wert
brought to Harper's Ferry from Philadel
phia last week, and turned loose to make
the homeward trip.
The Georges Creek and Cumberland
Railroad have added to their equipment
200 80 ton hoppers, and the West Virgins
Central ha e ordered 40 of the same kind
Messrs. Avery & Co. have put in q new
dam across the Shenandoah above har'
per's Ferry, and are pushing forward TIT
erection of the foundation Tor thdr pull
mill on the site of the old rifle factory
works.
Captain John Tees canal boat stirred
ND the body ola drowned man in the cana
near Shepherdstown, last week. Th'
man proved to be an umbrella mendel
from Baltimore, who had fallen into thu
canal while intoxicated and was drowned
An unknown tramp was killed on thu
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Van
cleyesville, Saturday last. In attempting
to get out of the way Of one train he got IL
the way of another, which threw hin
down an embankment against a fence will
such force as to break all the bones on TIT
one side of his body.
While workmen on the railroad wert
making an excavation at the mouth o
Cow Run, Jackson county, Wednesday, a
a depth of twelve feet they found a lot o.
cornstalks and a handspike, all we'll pre-
served and supposed to have beer there fol
seventy-five years or upwards. Trees forty
years old had grown over them.
Some one in Mineral county has an i'm
placable hatred of Mr.. Orndorff, who lives
near Frankfort, that county. Some time
ago a number of hogs belonging to the gen
tleman were shot, and q few days ago his
unknown enemy attempted to kill him,
fringa rifle to him, the ball from which
passed through one Of his arms.
At a picnic held at Perry Pultz's, neal
Shepherdstown, last Saturday, an alterca'
ton occurred between two young men,
Lewis. and Barber, in which the former
was fatally shot. 1t appears that during
the fight Lewis drew a large knife. Barber
attempting to run fell; before Lewis could
use his knife Barber drew his pistol and
fired, shooting Lewis in the side. The
wound is considered fatal.
A Mr.. Wood, of st. Adams, received q
telegram from Martinsburg, Kentucky,
Thursday evening, from his SOD, asking
him to come at once and identify him, as
he had been arrested for murder. The
murderer's name was Mcfarland, and
looked like young Wood. This caused the
latter's arrest on suspicion, and the citi-
gems were talking of lynching him. Mr..
Woods and his daughter left for the scene
of action Friday morning.
A nan was arrested at bridgeport, Har-
rison county, on Saturday last for declsr-
ing that he was the man who set fire 10
Grafton and Clarksburg; and was then
preparing TO burn Bridgeport. He gave
his name as William Edwards AMI was
quite drunk, when arrested, and he nG-
mitted when questioned that he was only
waiting for night to carry out his plans Of
firing the town. He was armed with a Gun
and was very reckless in handling it. His
statements are not believed, but he was
taken to Clarksburg, to Jail.
NJ. J. Hardesty, a farmer living Lear
Stephenson's, Frederick county, Va, IN
earthed i'll q cornfeld last week a brass
plate from a belt bearing a palmetto tree,
the figures 1776, the o at.of-arms of South
Carolina, the words "Dum Spiro, Spero,"
in one corner, and "Auimes OpiDusque,
Parati,n in another. The figures were
well preserved, but the words were nearly
obliterated. The plate had evidently been
worn by a South Carolina soldier during
the revolutionary war under Washington.
The sensation about Mrs. Duty, Of
Pennsboro, is exploded by the Richie
Gazette. The reports concerning her are
nearly all untrue. She took only q small
sum of money, about a hundred dollars,
which was her W She took no money
belonging to the library nor to her hus-
band. Her husband says nc one went
with her, and an unexpected departure OF
a lady from her home caused tho sOayen-
gers to throw around her a mantle of in
fanny to her injury and to the humiliation
of her friends, without a particle of fact to
support it, except that she went away.
For some weeks past a band of thieves
have been robbipg cars on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and succeeded in get
ting quite q lot of plunde. Railroad de-
t~ectives Daniel +. Sloan, John Lloyd and
NJ. Riordan wsre put on the track of the
robbers, and ran them down last week.
Harry Wallace, Mat Magruder and Ramus
Carter were captured near Washington,
and John Wallace, 4loysius Taylor and
Charles Brooks were caught sleeping In
John Browns Fort at Harper's Ferry.
They admitted their guilt and were placed
in Jail. Mr. Jacob Wintermower went Ia
M~artinsville TO see if he could identify any
of tie property as stolen from him, but he
could not. He had no cine whatever 10
the plunderers of his clothing store.
George Ridgeway, colored, has been in.
diotsd for burning the Peck building, al
Hinton, on The night OF the great fire and
since his incarceration he has ''sguealed''
on a pal by the name OF Sam Patton, also
colored. He says that he did not set fire
to the building but claims that lie saw
Patton do it. PattOn's actions since the
fire point almost indelibly to him az the
perpetrator Of the act. He is wanted badly
there, but up to this writing his where,
abouts is unknown. He is well known
there and along the line Of the railroad az
he has served at nearly all the hotels a,
Hinton, and has frequently acted as cook
for the employees Of the road. Suspicion
pointed very strongly to him as the incen,
diary who set fire to the Central Hotel and
other bulldogs which have been 30 mys-
teriously fired Of late. 1t would not bt
very healthy for Sam if it was certainly
known that he is the fire bug.
The row which occurred on the Ohio
river train from Ravenswood, Friday